Good to see Open Elect 1.2 got certified. From my reading, I think Unisyn has an advantage over the competition for allowing ballots to be printed on demand, which is an advantage for early voting and the "Voting Center" model where the process would be inefficient if the poll worker had to sift through stacks of pre-printed ballots to find the right one. This from Section 1.1 of the Test Report indicates the new version Open Elect enhances some of that functionality:
This modification includes the addition of key items to base level functionality that improves the general
usability of the system for both current and potential customers. These additions include improved
flexibility of generating ballot PDFs, including adding of custom artwork to ballots, increasing the
number of layout options for candidate data, allowing both left or right hand side targets, improving the
efficiency for loading election data on the in-precinct units, improving the look and usability of election
night reports, and enhancing generally the usability of the system. Hardware changes were introduced to
the OVI-VC, and a new collapsible portable ballot box was introduced for the OVO.
True that all the competition has submitted an REI in Marion County, but with Marion County interested in migrating to a Voting Center model, I'm hopeful these modifications and RBM's position as the incumbent will work to Unisyn's advantage.
"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them." - Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Economy, 1854
